Festival

A pre-WWI disc pressed in Germany for the British market, using Globophone masters. Obviously dating from before August 1914, when WWI stopped all German imported records coming into Britain.
The design is identical to Globophone, but just with a different background colour.

Some mystery surrounds Festival records, in that they were not advertised in trade journals of the time and the prorietor or agent in Britain is not known.

The catalogue numbers were in a 7000 series, probably starting at 7001, and the highest known is 7139. This is quite a small catalogue range and may imply that there was only one issue of Festival records. This may also explain their scarcity, if more were not produced due to poor sales.

The matrix series of known issues are in a 6000 series (probably British recordings, as they are mainly English vocal), and a 3-digit series , which may be German recordings, all very similar to "Eclipse" records. The 6000- series often show a suffix of 'KV' in the record's surface. According to Dr. Rainer Lotz, this almost certainly refers to recording expert Karl Vogel.

My thanks to Frank Andrews & Arthur Badrock in providing most of the information for this page.
Additional information from Norman Field, Philip Gordon-Booth, Mike Comber, Mike Langridge, Chris Mankelow

Please e-mail me if you can help me fill in the gaps in any of these series.

Cat No	Matrix	Title	Labelled Artists
7001

7015	6013 6014	You Are My Sunbeam Marie Louise	Dorothy Green (soprano, with orch accmp)
7016
7017	6017 6025	Meet Me To-night In Dreamland Queen Of The Cannibal Isle	Dorothy Green (soprano, with orch accmp) Ethel Pierce
7018	6018 6020	That Funny Little Bobtail Coat Cover It Over Quick, Jemima	Fred Harrison (vocal, with orch accmp)
7019
7020	6022 6023	Captain Ginjah O.T. Boiled Beef And Carrots	Billy Whiteley (vocal, with orch accmp) Fred Harrison (vocal, with orch accmp)
7021
7022
7023	6028 6030	There's a Little Black Cupid In The Moon You Taught Me How To Love You	Billy Whiteley (comic, with orch accmp)
7024
7025	6034 6051	Roses Come Sing To Me	Edward Floyd (with Theo Andrews (violin))

7036	6070 6071	Father's Books It Can't Be Done	Archie Pitt (vocal, with orch accmp)
7037	6072 6074	I Wish I Was A Bit Older I Don't Care What Becomes Of Me	Archie Pitt (with orch. accmp) Fred Harrison (with orch. accmp)
7039
7040	6079 6080	All Hands On Deck What's The Matter With Father?	Will Deller (with orch. accmp)

7052	6110 6111	That's What He Bought With His Wages If We Hadn't Any Women In The World	Frank Lynne (with orch. accmp)

7066	6144 6145	The Cigar Girl I Can't Make It Out, Can You?	Frank Lynne

7070	6158 6159	Jack's The Boy Down The Vale	Mr. Chas Kempton (with orch. accmp)
7071
7072	6162 6163	Two Dirty Little Hands When Father Papered The Parlour	Will Deller
7073
7074
7075	6166 6167	Come Round And Hear the Gramophone When You're Far From The Old Folks At Home	Will Deller Ethel Pierce
7076
7077
7078	6172 6173	Killarney Queen Of the Earth	Charles Kempton (tenor) (with piano accmp)
7079
7080
7081
7082
7083	6214 6215	Why Can't We Have The Sea In London? My Boy	Will Terry
7084
7085
7086
7087	6231 6232	Four Jolly Sailormen Ben the Bo'sun	Fred Monument (bass) (with piano accmp)
7088
7089
7090
7091
7092
7093	6255 6266	That Old Waltz Tune The Countryman's Holiday	Will Terry
7094
7095
7096	6262 6263	That's The Reason Noo I Wear A Kilt Tobermory	Jock McCallum
7097
7098	6267 6268	A Song Of Thanksgiving King Charles	Fred Monument [baritone]
7099
7100
7101
7102	6281 6282	O Dry Those Tears The Star Of Bethleham	R. Everson (cornet) (of the Scots Guards)
7103
7104
7105
7106
7107
7108
7109	128 / 6828 229 / 7327 ?	Thunderer March Off To Camp, march	Orchestra
7110

7130	527 528	Dollar Princess, waltz (Leo Fall) Treasure Waltz ("The Gypsy Baron")	Orchestra
7131
7132
7133
7134
7135
7136
7137
7138
7139	6482 6555	Blue Danube, waltz Quite Charming, waltz	Orchestra